Methodist Chapel and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1985. Chapel, school.
Methodist Chapel and Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- long-stone-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1985
- Type
- Chapel, school
- Address
- Methodist Chapel and Sunday School, West Street, Alford
- OS grid reference
- TF 453 759
- Coordinates
- 53.2611, 0.17696
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Chapel and Sunday School, built in 1864 by W. Botterill of Hull, is constructed from yellow Farlesthorpe brick with ashlar dressings and features banded blue and green slate roofs. The Sunday School is connected to the Chapel at the rear. The main façade showcases stepped corner buttresses topped with tall pinnacles, along with an ornate corbelled octagonal pinnacle at the gable, which has angle shafts with foliate capitals.
There are three shouldered doorways set within deeply moulded pointed arches, which also feature angle shafts with floriate capitals. Above the central doorway is a glazed octofoil, while the flanking doorways have simple blank trefoils, all beneath crocketed gablettes. The central section of the façade includes a four-light window with geometric tracery, flanked by two similar two-light windows with hood moulds and floriate label stops.
The side elevations consist of five identical bays, divided by tall stepped buttresses adorned with crockets. Each bay contains a triangular-headed lower three-light window and a pointed upper three-light window, both exhibiting geometric tracery. At the rear, there is a lower single bay unit with a dentillated frieze and two-light windows, which connects to the Sunday School. This separate gabled building features a central two-light window with a floriate dividing mullion, flanked by single tall and thin glazing bar sashes, all topped with flat ashlar heads.
Inside, the chapel has a U-shaped gallery supported by cast iron columns with floriate capitals and decorative spandrel brackets. The gallery is topped with a glazed internal roof, and it contains contemporary pews and fittings.
Local climate
Methodist Chapel and Sunday School receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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